Surrealism: Additional Resources

Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art

The Smithsonian Institution Archives for American Art Archives in Washington D.C. holds a selection of materials related to Surrealism and artists within the movement, viewable here. Collection highlights include the Kay Sage papers, Gertrude Abercrombie papers, and the 1998 records for Dada and Surrealism in America: A Symposium in honor of Man Ray, and more. 

Getty Research Institute

The Getty Research Institute Surrealism in Latin America research guide addresses significant challenges researchers face when working on the history of surrealism in Latin America, namely that primary documents are often difficult to access and secondary sources exist in several languages. It further underscored the need for scholarship on surrealism’s relationship to pre-Columbian art and its continuing legacy in the work of postwar Latin American artists.

Centre Pompidou

The Kandinsky Library at the Centre Pompidou in Paris holds more than 250 collections, many of which feature artists, groups, galleries, institutions, relating to the Surrealist movement. The Kandinsky Library holdings can be viewed here. 

UbuWeb

• Surrealism Reviewed: a selection of audio interviews and music: A definitive collection of original spoken word recordings by Surrealist artists, writers and poets, made between 1929 and 1963.
• Europe After the Rain: History of Surrealism and Dada (1978): This feature-length film examines the movements of Dada and Surrealism, and follows the development of their main exponents, Duchamp, Tzara, Arp, Ernst, Schwitters, Breton and Dali.
   

Blue Mountain Project: Historic Avant-Garde Periodicals for Digital Research

• Action: cahiers individualistes de philosophie et d’art: Literary and artistic magazine with contributors Literary contributors including André Malraux, Antonin Artaud, Paul Éluard, Alfred Jarry, Erik Satie, and Tristan Tzara.
• Le Coeur à barbe: A single-issue newspaper issued by Tristan Tzara in April 1922 in response to André Breton's attacks on him in the March 2nd issue of Comoedia. Published by Au Sans Pareil in Paris.
• Surréalisme, Number 1, 1 October 1924: The first document of the Surrealist movement. Yvan Goll's manifesto was published 14 days before André Breton's Manifeste du surréalisme, which was published on October 15, 1924. 
   

Surrealism-Plays

• Surrealism-Plays is a site devoted to the history and creative works of the Surrealist Movement, as well as the anti-tradition of avant-garde theatre.

• Dafoe, Taylor. "Surrealism in the Age of AI." ARTnews, April 26, 2024. 
• Halle, Howard. "As Surrealism Turns 100, a Look at Its Enduring Legacy." ARTnews, April 24, 2024. 
• Siegal, Nina. "Surrealism is 100. The World's Still Surreal." The New York Times, February 28, 2024. 
• Russell, Livia. "Celebrating 100 Years of Surrealism at Frieze." Frieze, October 3, 2024. 
• C. Meier, Allison. "Surrealism at 100: A Reading List." JSTOR Daily, September 19, 2024. 
• Arn, Jackson. "The Bad Dream of Surrealism." The New Yorker, August 5, 2024. 
• Art in America, April 2022. 
• The Dalí Museum. "Paul Éluard Online Exhibition." The Salvador Dalí Center for the Avant-garde, September 3, 2022. 
• M. Baudin, Tessel. "Fantastic art, Barr, surrealism." Journal of Art Historiography, December 2017.
• Poirier, Agnès. "Watching boxing with Picasso and a ménage-à-trois at home: my life with the surrealist elite." The Guardian, April 12, 2014. 
• Clifford, James. "On Ethnographic Surrealism." Comparative Studies in Society and History, October, 1981.
• Calas, Nicolas. "The Challenge of Surrealism." Artforum, January 1979.  
• Bernard Myers, John. "Surrealism and New York Painting 1940–1948: A Reminiscence." Artforum, April 1977.
• Rose, Barbara. "The Films of Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy." Artforum, September 1971.
• Artforum, May 1968. 
• M. Franc, Helen M. "Interview with Sidney Janis." The Museum of Modern Art, June 1967. 
• Artforum, September 1966.
• Fowlie, Wallace. "Surrealism in 1960: A Backward Glance." Poetry, March 1960. 
• Hays, H.R.. "Surrealist Influence in Contemporary English and American Poetry." Poetry, July 1939.
• Dauwen Zabel, Morton. "A Surrealist Master." Poetry, September 1936.